ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the semiotics of the terrains of parking range from the handicapped parking space to the paving of parking lots to parking stalls for electric vehicles and even a recent lava flow. It also explores the semiotic of the wheelchair as it is used as a tool governing the occupancy of the handicapped parking space based around the use of the word regard from the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADAs) definition of disability. The community of the parking lot is a repository of visible and invisible structures of law that shape political life. The governable space of handicapped parking combines modes of legal authorization for disabled drivers, with procedures of social adjudication. The chapter illustrates the semiotics of parking affect the governance of the terrain of parking. These semiotics act as the aesthetics of justice as the signs, symbols, and markers of legitimacy brand both the parker and the parking space itself.
